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And nairobi, kenya. 200 people dead, 4,000 wounded and injured. many of the same recommendations that were made by the most recent accountability review board were made back then, so it's a matter of implementation and leadership, which seems to be lacking. and we really still don't know what the secretary knew prior to september 11, 2012. we know what she did afterwards, that's what she talked about today, but there are huge questions about security requests that our ambassador in libya had made to the department. did she know about it? those answers still are forthcoming and they have not co...

Request subsequent to the august 16 cable, our personnel in libya had not submitted any additional security requests to washington at the time of the september 11th attack. there was an ongoing dialogue between libya and washington. >> reclaiming my limited time. an emergency meeting was held and a cable sent out on august 16 by the ambassador himself warning what could happen and this cable went unnoticed by your office. that is the bottom line. >> the facts as we have them, congress plan and i am happy to have people give this in detail, it stated that security requests for benghazi would be...

Those officials when in fact no significant action has or has occurred. there is a shuffling of the deck chairs. do you find it acceptable that state officials responsible for this lack of leadership and mismanagement for ignoring security requests during the benghazi attack and before and remain employed within the state department? also the accountability report cites several systemic failures at the department that cannot be overlooked or ignored. given that they were aware of the dangerously declining situation at ben gazay and pointed out by the chairman and attempt on the british embassa...

About the communications. these officials were screaming out for more security. and i'm just wondering if you might mention one reform that would be helpful, so that you would have known of the needs there of security, that went undone. >> well, obviously, i have thought about this almost constantly since that date, senator, because, you know, i do feel responsible. i feel responsible for the nearly 70,000 people who work for the state department. i take it very seriously. the specific security requests pertaining to benghazi, you know, were handled by the security professionals in the departm...

With regard to the security requests, subsequent to the august 16th cable, our personnel in libya had not submitted additional security requests to washington at the time of the september 11 attack. now, there was an ongoing dialogue as you know between libya and washington. i think -- >> my time is limited. an emergency meeting was held and a cable support out on august 16th by the ambassador himself, warning what could happen. this cable went unnoticed by your office. that's the bottom line. >> the facts as we have them, congressman, and i will be happy to have people give you this in detail...